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VESSELS BUILT AT SUNDERLAND
1782,
1783,
1784,
1787,
1790,
1791,
1792,
1793,
1794,
1795,
1796,
1797,
1798,
1799.
1782 (limited data so far often been built up from elsewhere
in the site. Can you provide a list?
Just a start.)
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Amity
(a snow, later a brig) |
269
later
272
later
291 |
Unknown to webmaster |
I have not researched the history of this vessel & most especially
have not checked such editions of Lloyd's Register ('LR') over its 80 year
lifetime as are available to the webmaster. A project for a rainy day! I note, however, that In LR of 1800, the
269 ton snow is listed as
owned by T. Cooper for service from London to Hamburg, Germany. The North of
England Maritime Directory of 1848/49 lists the vessel, in Jul. 1848, as registered at
Newcastle & owned by John Clay & Co., of South Shields. Turnbull's
Shipping Register of 1856 records the vessel as
then registered at Shields & owned by E. Mounsey of Newcastle. While
Christie's Shipping Register of 1858
lists George Wascoe of North Shields & C. Teasdale of Newcastle as the vessel's
then owners. On an unstated date in Oct. 1862, per line 2846 here, the
291 ton brig foundered off the Galloper (E. of Felixstowe, Suffolk, &
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, I think), while trading 'coastwise'.
Crew of 10 -
none lost. Vessel stated to have then been owned by Cuthbert Teasdale. Anything you can add?
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1783 (limited data so far often been built up from elsewhere
in the site. Can you provide a list?
Just a start.)
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Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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Horn (a ship) |
290
later
369
later
368 |
Unknown to webmaster |
This vessel is listed thanks to a site visitor who kindly
provided a newspaper article about her 1852 wreck. The vessel had a very long
life - 69 years. The webmaster has not yet checked the Lloyd's Registers ('LR') for
her many years He has checked a few available LR years however. The
vessel is listed in LRs of 1799/1800 thru 1804/05 owned by 'Blakey' for service from London to
Greenland. From 1817/18 thru 1821/22, the vessel was owned by 'Thornton' for
service from London to Dundee. The newspaper article refers to the vessel having
spent 69 years in service in the Greenland whale fishery. While that reference seems to be
incorrect, the vessel was, from 1829/30, listed as being owned by 'Dundee SC' &
serving in the Dundee fishery. On Oct. 13, 1852, the ship left the
whaling fleet at Greenland & on Nov. 5, 1852 was close to its home base of
Dundee. The vessel with 50 men aboard was under the command of Captain David Sturrock.
In darkness, during a heavy gale & heavy rain, the vessel stranded on rocks on the
S. shore of St. Andrew's Bay, Fife, Scotland, S. of the Firth of Tay, specifically at Barbertness
reef, 6 miles S. of St. Andrews. With daylight, a seaman named Anderson braved the jagged rocks & succeeded in
swimming to shore with a line. Soon a hawser was rigged - stretched from the top of one
of the ship's masts to a large rock ashore. 47 of those aboard made it to safety. The
48th person, the captain, did make it
to shore also but was lucky to survive the experience. The rope used to pull
the survivors along the hawser broke & the hawser with the captain attached was overwhelmed by the heavy seas. 2 crew members
came to the captain's rescue, however, & he did reach the shore, his body severely lacerated
by the sharp rocks over which he had been dragged. The final two aboard the ship
succeeded in launching a boat, pulled away from the shore & were rescued by a
schooner which took them to Boarhill Creek & to safety. So no lives lost
& the ship surely ended up a total wreck. You can read the
1852 newspaper article here.
You can read another story about the loss of the Horn (here)
at true page 228, with a significantly different version of
events however, but with some good name detail incorporated above.
That source states that the wreck was in Sep. 1848 which surely conflicts with
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Margaret & Ann (a snow or brig) |
194
later
184
later
275
later
258
later
261 |
Unknown to webmaster |
A vessel which had a very long life indeed - about 78 years! And many owners. The vessel is Lloyd's Register ('LR')
listed (in years available to the webmaster) in 1800 & 1801, in 1803, in 1809,
1n 1813, 1815, from 1818 thru 1841/42, from 1843/44 thru 1849/50, from 1850/51
thru 1861/62. In 1800, 1801 & 1803, the 194 ton brig was owned by J.
Happall, with T. Happall her captain, for service from London to Hamburg. In
1809, per LR, J. Heppall owned the brig, now of 184 tons, with T. Heppall her
captain, for service from Newcastle to London. In 1813, 'Hoppell' owned the brig,
now of 275 tons for service from London to Stockholm, Sweden, & in 1815 for
service from London to Shields. In 1818, maybe thru 1821, Ridley & Co. owned the
brig for service from Plymouth to Newcastle. I said 'maybe' because a LR listing
headed 1820/21 lists 'Read' as the snow's owner for service from
Shields to London. It would appear from 1822 thru 1848/49, the vessel was owned
by 'Bell', initially T. Bell, also her captain, from 1823 Bell & Co., with T. R. Bell
her captain thru 1833, from 1840/41 T. Bell of Seaton Sluice, soon of N. Shields
or Shields.
For service from Hull to Memel (then E. Prussia, now Klaipėda, Lithuania) thru 1827, from Plymouth to Memel thru 1833, from
Shields to London in the period of 1840/43, from Shields to Nova Scotia, Canada,
in the period of 1843/46, from Shields to America in the period of 1846/49. An
anomaly. The LR data of many years is fragmentary & from 1834 thru 1839/40 LR lists a
261 ton vessel of the name (no rig stated) registered at Newport, Wales, with R. Hart the captain. It
does seem
to relate to 'our' vessel. The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848/9 lists
the vessel, in Jul. 1848, as owned by George Bell of Seaton Sluice. From 1851/52 thru 1853/54, Cunningham of Newcastle owned the snow for
service from Newcastle to London. In 1854/55 & 1855/56 'Stanifrd' of Newcastle
owned the vessel for service from Newcastle to the Baltic. In Apl. 1854, per
Marwood's North of England Maritime Directory of 1854/5, Staniford & Elliot of
Newcastle, owned the vessel with R. Watters her captain. From 1856/57, LR
lists M'rchbanks of Shields as the snow's owner for service generally ex Shields, but in
1857/58 for service ex Dundee, Scotland. Turnbull's Shipping Register of 1856
lists J. Marchbank, L. Elliott, S. Fairbairn & J. Kidman, all of South
Shields, as the vessel's then owners. which owner names are clarified by Christie's Shipping Register of 1858
to mean John Marchbank, Lancelot Elliot, Susannah Fairburn & James Kidman. On
Nov. 3, 1861, per line
1426 here, the
268 ton snow stranded near Hamburg, Germany, while en route
from Shields to Hamburg with a cargo of coal. Crew of 10 - none lost.
The vessel is stated to have been then owned by John Marchbank. Anything you can add? |
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1784 (limited data so far often been built up from elsewhere
in the site. Can you provide a list?
Just a start.)
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1787 (data so far has been built up from elsewhere
in the site. Can you provide a list?
Just a start.)
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me if you know.
1790 (data so far has been built up from elsewhere
in the site. Can you provide a list?
Just a start.)
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me if you know.
1791 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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me if you know.
1792 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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me if you know.
1793 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Name |
Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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Vine
(a brigantine) |
233 |
T. Burn |
The webmaster has not researched this vessel. He has, however read this entry in
a 1908 Whitby, Yorkshire, shipping history book, which tells us that the vessel
became Whitby registered in 1817, then owned by Robt. Corner, of Lofthouse. Further
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me if you know.
1794 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Name |
Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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1 |
Affiance |
108 |
John & Philip Laing |
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2 |
Horta |
162 |
John & Philip Laing |
Captain Forster |
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me if you know.
1795 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Name |
Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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1 |
Betsey |
154 |
John & Philip Laing |
Caithness |
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2 |
Dove |
78 |
John & Philip Laing |
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3 |
Princess Royal |
169 |
John & Philip Laing |
W. Wheatley |
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4 |
William (a ship) |
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A Monkwearmouth shore builder |
Gary Hicks advises (thanks!) that a ship of this name was
registered at Plymouth from May 3, 1810 to Apl. 4, 1915. On Sep. 28, 1820 the
vessel was stranded when leaving New London Harbour, Prince Edward Island,
Canada - the cargo & materials were saved. Note |
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5 |
Xenophon |
351 |
H. Rudd of Monkwearmouth |
Have not tried to research this vessel which was launched in
Jan. 1795 & had an amazingly long life. The vessel is listed in Marwood's
North of England Maritime Directory of Mar. 1854,
then a Liverpool registered brig owned by Edward Oliver with Hugh Mackay serving
as the vessel's captain. I note that in the Mercantile Navy List of 1870 the
357 ton vessel was registered at Melbourne, Australia, & owned by John
Curtis of Williamstown, Victoria, Australia. The equivalent list of
1880
has Chas. Marshall
Poole, also of Williamstown, as her then owner. It would seem that the vessel was broken up at Melbourne in 1881. |
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me if you know.
1796 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Name |
Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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1 |
Affinity |
158 |
John & Philip Laing |
J. Davie |
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2 |
Gemini |
235 |
John & Philip Laing |
James Swan |
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3 |
Hypomenes |
118 |
John & Philip Laing |
W. White |
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Neptune |
282 |
John & Philip Laing |
Peddie & Co. |
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me if you know.
1797 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Name |
Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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Alfred |
140 |
John & Philip Laing |
Matthew Robson |
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Clinker (a snow or brig)
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171 |
An unknown to webmaster Deptford builder |
The webmaster has only partially researched this vessel. He has reviewed
many but far from all editions of Lloyd's Register ('LR') from 1897
thru 1851/52. Significant data has been located as below, but interested
visitors might wish to conduct their further research to expand upon the
following. i) In LR of 1805, Clinker, a brig, listed as British, & also as 'captured',
was owned by J. Bradley for service from London to the Baltic, with J. Gwin
serving as her
captain. ii) From 1809 thru 1811, the vessel is, per LR, owned by W. Cullen (Cullon
in 1809) with Chancellor her captain. For service in such years from London to
Heligoland (German islands in the North Sea, located 43 miles off the mouth of the river Elbe), from Hull to London & from London to Jamaica. Stated, in 1810 &
1811, to
have had 4 guns. iii) In 1812 & 1813, per LR, P. Hoskin owned the vessel with H. Walker
her captain. For continued service from London to Jamaica, iv) From 1815 thru
1820, McKenzie, likely J. McKenzie, both owned & captained the vessel for service
from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Malta. v) LR of 1820/21 details her as having been
built in 1796 at 'River', & owned & captained by McKenzie for service from
Sunderland to London. Most LRs from 1809 thru 1820 also refer to the vessel
built at 'River', with a meaning unknown to the webmaster. vi) The list of vessels
registered at Newcastle in 1830 records
the vessel as then owned by Thomas Coulson and Co. of North Shields. vii) In the cryptic data of LRs from 1834 thru 1838/39, the vessel was registered at Newcastle & captained
by Shepherd. During such period, even though LR does not so indicate, the vessel
was owned by 'Coulson' of the Tyne area. I say that because of the 1830 data as above
& also viii) LRs of 1839/40 thru 1842/43 which record T. Coulson of North
Shields as her then owner for service from Shields to London with M. Jackson
serving as her captain. ix) The North of England Maritime Directory of 1848
lists Bulmer & Huggitt of South Shields as her then owner.
Line 957 on
this
page advises us that the 171 ton brig, en route from Sunderland to
Schiedam (Rotterdam, Netherlands) with a cargo of coal, had foundered in the North Sea on Aug. 26, 1851. Then owned by
Richard Bulmer.
A crew of 9, none of whom were lost, or so the listing indicates. This Wikipedia
page tells us (thanks!) that the vessel was lost off Texel, North Holland, & the crew were, indeed, rescued. Is there
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Dane |
114 |
John & Philip Laing |
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Nowa |
85 |
John & Philip Laing |
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me if you know.
1798 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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Lord Duncan (a ship) |
935 |
Havelock |
The vessel was launched at Southwick,
Sunderland, on Mar. 10, 1898, with about 15,000 spectators in
attendance, as per this contemporary newspaper report. Said to
have been the largest vessel then
built in Sunderland & 'completely adapted for the East India trade'. The
vessel was surely named to honour Admiral Adam Duncan (1731/1804) famous for his victory in the
Oct. 11, 1797 naval battle of Camperdown against the Dutch fleet
(A & B).
Within days of the battle Admiral Duncan became Viscount Duncan & Baron Duncan.
Readers should note that this ship was not the only
vessel built to honour Lord Duncan. There were four other ships of the
identical name, all
built in 1898.
The vessel is first listed in Lloyd's Register ('LR') of
1800, then noted to be 2 years old & owned by 'Havelock' for service from London
to Smyrna, now İzmir, Turkey. With 'Thompson' serving as the vessel's captain.
I read that
on Nov. 16, 1801, when at Smyrna with Thompson in command, the vessel was struck
by lightning & suffered considerable damage.
The vessel, from Mar.
04 thru Mar. 08, 1805, was offered for sale at a public
auction held at Lloyd's Coffee House in London at 2 p.m. on Mar. 08, 1805.
Clearly the vessel did not sell. It was advertised for sale again in Nov. 1805 &
many times after that month thru Jul. 03, 1806 - by private sale, later lying in
Greenland Dock. I cannot tell you who acquired it, assuming that it was
eventually sold.
In 1806
& 1807, per
LR, the vessel rather served St. or Santo Domingo, now in the Dominican
Republic, with a new captain - Heartley
or Huersley perhaps - the text is most difficult to read.
In early Dec. 1806, the vessel
was en route from London to St. Domingo with 'Hurtley' said to be in command, when it encountered a heavy gale after
leaving the Downs. On Dec. 07, 1806 it put into Portsmouth very leaky, making 5
ft. of water in her holds per hour. The repairs took quite a while - it only left
Portsmouth for St. Domingo on Mar. 23, 1807.
I learn that Lord Duncan did make it safely to
St. Domingo but on Aug. 22, 1807 when at Port-au-Prince (now Haiti) with 400,000 lbs. of
coffee on board, ready perhaps to depart for London, the vessel blew up. A massive explosion which took the life of
the vessel's first officer & one sailor. Per these contemporary news reports
- 1 & 2.
'Huersley' noted by Lloyd's List to then be her captain.
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Sarah |
109 |
John & Philip Laing |
Scaling |
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Spring (a brig) |
129
later
130
later
131
later
130/115 |
J. Blenkinsop of Monkwearmouth |
The Lloyd's Register ('LR') record for this vessel is both modest & fragmentary.
It surely seems to have been built in 1798. The vessel is LR listed in 1809, a
129 ton 1798 built brig owned by Blenkinsop for service as a Sunderland
coaster, with Allen serving as the vessel's captain. Then an LR silence for many
years. LR of 1830 thru 1833, lists the vessel, now of 130 tons & stated to be 32 thru
35 years of age, as owned & captained by J. Wiskins for service as a Topsham,
Devon,
coaster. An 1826 list of Sunderland registered ships lists the brig as owned &
captained by J. Wiskins. In 1834 it would seem that the vessel, now of 131 tons, became
registered at Newcastle & owned by 'Lishman' - thru 1838/39. The LR data for such
years is cryptic indeed but I believe the 'listings' are re this vessel. From
1844/45 thru 1852/53, the 130/115 ton vessel is LR listed as built in 1790 (in error) &
owned by 'Lishman' of North Shields. For service as a Shields coaster & with 'Lishman'
serving as her captain thru 1845/46 & from 1845/46 'til 1852/53 T. Scott. The
Lishman owner's name is clarified by the North of
England Maritime Directory of 1848 which lists the vessel twice - as a
Newcastle
registered
brig owned by C. Leishman & as a Shields
registered brig owned by Christopher Lishman, both of North Shields. It seems likely that the vessel was lost
or broken up in or about 1853. The vessel is not listed in Marwood's North of
England Maritime Directory of 1854. Can you add anything,
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Vertumnus |
260 |
John & Philip Laing |
J. Poditch |
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me if you know.
1799 (Just a start. Can you provide a list?
Do please advise
me if you have data. Corrections will
surely be
required in the data that follows.)
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Gross |
Builder |
Built for |
Official No. |
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Achilles |
199 |
T. Wake |
Per Lloyd's Register of 1839/40, a 255 ton snow of the name, stated to have been built at Sunderland in
1799, foundered. |
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Albion |
334 |
John & Philip Laing |
John Hough & Co. |
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Diana |
147 |
John & Philip Laing |
Wilson |
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Elizabeth (a square) |
105
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Possibly W. & E. Potts or G. Ratfield |
The webmaster has checked Lloyd's Registers ('LR') of a handful of years in the early 1800s,
& all of the years in the period of 1834 thru 1861/62 to find this vessel. One vessel that might
'fit' is listed in 1803 & 1805 but its identification is uncertain. What I can
tell you is as follows. ON 2633 was registered at Sandwich, Kent, from 1848 thru
1860. On May 13, 1861, per line
1225 here,
the
97 ton square was wrecked at Brantwik (where is it?) while en route from Danzic (now Gdańsk, Poland) to Sandwich
with a cargo of timber. Crew of 6 - none lost. Then owned by Simon Nunn Bunton. Anything you can add? |
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Leander |
230 |
John & Philip Laing |
Scaling & Laing |
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me if you know.
May I suggest that you navigate the site via the
index on page 001.PRIOR PAGE / NEXT PAGE
1782,
1783,
1784,
1790,
1791,
1792,
1793,
1794,
1795,
1796,
1797,
1798,
1799.
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